Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2 - The Intelligibility of History (Paperback, 2nd edition)

Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958 and published in France in 1985, this magisterial work first appeared in English in 1991 and now reappears with a major new introduction by Fredric Jameson. Volume Two's theoretical framework is a logical extension of the predecessor's. As in Volume One, Sartre proceeds by moving from the simple to the complex: from individual combat (through a perceptive study of boxing) to the struggle of subgroups within an organized group form and, finally, to social struggle, with an extended analysis of the Bolshevik Revolution. The book concludes with a forceful reaffirmation of dialectical reason: of the dialectic as 'that which is truly irreducible in action'.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2006
First published:	July 2006
Editors:	Arlette Elkaim-Sartre
Authors:	Jean-Paul Sartre
Foreword by:	Fredric Jameson
Translators:	Quintin Hoare
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	498
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84467-077-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	1-84467-077-5
Barcode:	9781844670772

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